In an interview with Elon Musk, he was asked a question:
"What advice do you have for people who procrastinate and lack action?”
Elon Musk said, “I have never believed that there is such a thing as a lack of action in the world, because all the problems of action come from a lack of precision.”
Almost all the misfortunes of ordinary life begin with a loss of precision.
Humans are genetically programmed to fear the vague and the indescribable,
People who have bad behavior in real life aren't lazy or afraid of what they have to deal with. Their fear comes from the ambiguity of the task.
If you want something to happen all you have to do is assemble all the elements that are going to happen,
Just like building a rocket, there are only 27 key steps, and when you improve the accuracy of the objective assessment of the world, everything you think is out of reach will be easy."
"Cognitive Awakening" writes: Many people attribute the reason for the lack of action to environmental interference or weak willpower, in fact, the real reason for the lack of action is vague choice.
I suddenly understood why a lot of things that I want to do are always delayed, why I originally wanted to do this thing, but finally did another thing.
The fundamental reason is that the selection force is vague, and a clear goal is not determined among the many choices, resulting in a lack of action.
Ambiguity is the inability to make a clear choice when there are many possibilities.
There are many possibilities:
For example, there are too many things I want to do, too many ideas in my mind, too many things I want to learn, too many things I want to get...
I can do this, I can do that, I can... The end result is that we pull out our phones and have fun.
So, when we don't have clear instructions or goals, it's easy to opt for pleasure and forgo the more brain-burning options that we should stick to.
One of the most effective ways to build clarity is to write a to-do list
Follow these steps:
1. Make a list of things to do and want to do that day.
2. Rank things in order of urgency and importance.
3. Schedule these things into each session.
4. At the end of the day, check and count everything you've done.
Points to note: be sure to write down, after writing down, the goal becomes clear, according to the goal to do, the situation of procrastination will be greatly reduced.
According to the important, fixed things to do priority, a day to do exactly what, time to arrange, to what time to do what, very clear, do it is also very committed.
In this way, the same amount of things, the same amount of time, but no longer feel rushed, easy to deal with. When the task is clear, the motivation will come naturally.
If you only know the general idea of what you want to do, it will not help to improve your action, and even counterproductive. When the goal is detailed and concrete, the action can be improved.